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Today finds me on the beautiful and unexpectedly sunny east coast of Ireland. More specifically, Northern Ireland. Today's agenda: leave Belfast (such a great city!), explore the Giant's Causeway, take in a dram or two at the Bushmills Distillery, and lay my head down in Derry. In other words, I'll already have a buzz going by the time many of you roll out of bed and read this.

Just as no turkey will be harmed in the execution of my vacation, none will be harmed in the viewing of my video. In fact, rather than masticating a turkey, you'll be making one, using nothing more than Photoshop and a primitive tracing of your own hand.

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Last week, I changed a red car to solid gold and then, in the lynda.com Online Training Library, to jet black. This week, I do something very nearly resembling the opposite. That is to say, I take the "black" (cuz they're really dark gray) stripes on a zebra and render them in color. Which you might not regularly find yourself doing to a zebra. But you may want to do, say, a piece of black-and-white artwork.

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As those of you following my special Halloween-inspired pirate flag video blog know, each and every one of this week's videos hails from my upcoming Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced series for lynda.com. And yet, halfway into things, we have yet to even see, so much as use, Adobe Illustrator. That curious situation changes today. In this video, I save the pixel-based artwork at two resolutions: 72 ppi (which Illustrator insanely recommends) and 300 ppi (which works out much better). And then I launch Illustrator and apply the program's Live Trace feature to both, with truly astounding results.

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